Stunned Myocardium as a Sequela of Acute Severe Anemia: An Adult Simulation Case for Anesthesiology Residents.

Introduction: Anesthesiologists develop anesthetic plans according to the surgical procedure, patient's medical history, and physical exams. Patients with ischemic heart disease are predisposed to intraoperative cardiac complications from surgical blood loss. Unanticipated events can lead to intraoperative complications despite careful anesthesia planning.

Cricothyrotomy in Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed: A Difficult Airway Simulation Case for Anesthesiology Residents.

Introduction: Patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding may have challenging airways. This simulation teaches anesthesiology residents the skill of cricothyrotomy as a surgical last resort while managing acute bleeding in the airway.

Methods: The simulation involved a 55-year-old patient with history of alcohol abuse admitted to the ICU with hematemesis and acute blood loss for esophagogastroduodenoscopy in the ICU setting.

Intraoperative Tension Pneumothorax in a Trauma Patient: An Adult Simulation Case for Anesthesia Residents.

Anesthesiologists may encounter multiple obstacles in communication when attempting to collect information for emergency surgeries. Occult tension pneumothorax that was asymptomatic in the emergency department (ED) could become apparent upon positive pressure ventilation and pose a critical threat to the patient intraoperatively. Here, we describe a simulation exercise that was developed as a curriculum module for the Indiana University (IU) Anesthesiology residency program.

Development of a simulation technical competence curriculum for medical simulation fellows.

Background And Needs: Medical educators with simulation fellowship training have a unique skill set. Simulation fellowship graduates have the ability to handle basic and common troubleshooting issues with simulation software, hardware, and equipment setup. Outside of formal training programs such as this, simulation skills are inconsistently taught and organically learned.

Innovative Use of High-Fidelity Lung Simulators to Test a Ventilator Splitter Device.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly exposed health care system inadequacies. Hospital ventilator shortages in Italy compelled US physicians to consider creative solutions, such as using Y-pieces or T-pieces, to preclude the need to make decisions of life or death based on medical equipment availability. We add to current knowledge and testing capacity for ventilator splitters by reporting the ability to examine the functionality of ventilator splitters by using 2 high-fidelity lung simulators.